Routledge's coloured ABC book : containing, Alphabet of fairy tales, Farm-yard alphabet, Alphabet of flowers, Tom Thumb's alphabet / with twenty-four pages of illustrations by Kronheim and others.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London (The Broadway, Ludgate) ; New York (416 Broome street) : George Routledge and Sons, [not after 1871]
Description
[54] leaves : col. ill. (chromolith.) ; 27 cm.

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 9761 Eng 19 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Notes
    • Dated from Cotsen copy inscription.
    • Leaves mounted on cloth.
    • The Alphabet of Flowers attributed to Mrs. Hawtrey on the basis of the title page to her Alphabet of fruits for good children, in which she is described as the author of this work. The rhyming alphabet begins: "A for anemones, telling of Spring,/ And the gladness and brightness their gay colours bring/ B is for blue-bell, that sparkles with dew,/ And carpets the ground with its flowers of blue./ C for convolvulus, children's delight,/ Which opens in day-time, and shuts up at night." The Alphabet of Flowers attributed to Mrs. Hawtrey was previously published by Routledge, Warne and Routledge ca. 1860 (Cotsen cid 4322).
    • "List of illustrations" on leaf [3]. The leaves of illustrations for Farm-yard alphabet and Alphabet of flowers are signed "Leighton, Bros." The leaves of illustrations of Tom Thumb's alphabet are signed "Leighton, Bros." or "Leighton, Brothers" with several signed "Mc" or "Dalziel." Opie attributes the illustrations to William McConnell cited below. Tom Thumb's Alphabet is an expanded version of the traditional nursery rhyme "A was an archer."
    • The Farm-yard alphabet is a different work than the one by the same title illustrated by Walter Crane. The text begins: A stands for Ass, who eats thistles and grass;/ He is useful and patient, though only an ass./ B is for bees, that fly out here and there,/ And bring to the hives the sweet honey with care./ C for the cows, in the shade of the trees;/ They are chewing the cud, and seem quite at their ease."
    • Cotsen copy: Inscription at head of title: "Ronald Vernon from his affectionate Mama 1871".
    • Cotsen copy: White Cotsen bookplate dated 1/79 on front pastedown.
    • Cotsen copy: Bibliotique, A.B.A. ... Bath advertisement card laid in.
    Binding note
    Pub. blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, red, and gilt.
    References
    • Opie, Three centuries, 620.
    • Masaki, T. Victorian popular pic. bks, p. 798
    Other title(s)
    • ABC picture book
    • Alphabet of fairy tales.
    • Farm-yard alphabet.
    • Tom Thumb's alphabet.
    • Alphabet of flowers.
    OCLC
    177761529
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